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			May 05, 2021from 
			Winteroak Website
 
			
			
			Spanish version
 
 
 
 
			
			 
			  
			  
			One potential positive from the whole
			
			Covid-19 debacle is that we have 
			learned an incredible amount about the society in which we live. 
			This will be crucial if we manage to stave off a descent into a 
			nightmare future of techno-fascist slavery.
 
 We will have a new understanding of what our world has become and 
			what we would like it to be in the decades and centuries to come.
 
				
				And "we" means 
				we... 
			While the majority have, 
			apparently, learnt nothing at all from what has happened, they will 
			eventually catch up.
 There is no way that knowledge gained by a wide-awake 15% or 20% of 
			the population will not end up being shared by almost everyone.
 
				
				Once the truth is 
				out, it tends to stay out. 
			As 
			
			H.R. Haldeman so wisely put it,
			 
				
				"you can't put the 
				toothpaste back in the tube". 
			  
			  
			Here are Ten 
			Things We Have Learned During the Covid Coup
 
			  
			  
			 
 
				
					
					
					Our political 
					system is hopelessly corrupt.    
					Virtually all 
					politicians are hopelessly corrupt. No political party can 
					be trusted. They all can be, and have been, bought. 
					
					
					Democracy 
					is a sham.    
					It has been a 
					sham for a very long time. There will never be any real 
					democracy when money and power amount to the same thing. 
					
					
					The system 
					will stop at nothing to hold on to its power and, if 
					possible, increase its levels of control and 
					exploitation.    
					It has no 
					scruples. No lie is too outrageous, no hypocrisy too 
					nauseating, no human sacrifice too great. 
					
					
					So-called 
					radical movements are usually nothing of the sort.
					   
					From whatever 
					direction they claim to attack the system, they are just 
					pretending to do so, and serve to channel discontent in 
					directions which are harmless to the power clique and even 
					useful to its agendas. 
					
					
					Any "dissident"
					voice you have ever heard of through corporate media 
					is probably a fake.    
					The system does 
					not hand out free publicity to its actual enemies. 
					
					
					Most people 
					in our society are cowards.    
					They will 
					jettison all the fine values and principles which they have 
					been loudly boasting about all their lives merely to avoid 
					the slightest chance of public criticism, inconvenience or 
					even minor financial loss. 
					
					
					The 
					
					mainstream media is 
					nothing but a propaganda machine for the system and those 
					journalists who work for it have sold their sorry souls, 
					placing their (often minimal) writing skills entirely at the 
					disposition of Power. 
					
					
					Police are 
					not 'servants of the public' but servants of a powerful and 
					extremely wealthy minority which seeks to control and 
					exploit the public for its own narrow and greedy interests.     
					 
					
					
					Scientists 
					cannot be trusted.    
					They will use the 
					hypnotic power of their white coats and authoritative status 
					for the benefit of whoever funds their work and lifestyle.
					   
					He who pays the 
					piper calls the tune. 
					
					
					Progress 
					is a misleading illusion.    
					The "progress" of 
					increasing automatization and industrialization does not go 
					hand in hand with a progress in the quality of human life, 
					but in fact will "progressively" reduce it to the point of 
					complete extinction.   
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